Tag: Western culture

"On the ruins of Western civilisation

‘Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!’, by Bruce Buchan

Arena Magazine no. 155

Bruce Buchan

Aug 2018

On the ruins of Western civilisation
"It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much…

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

Arena Magazine 108

Oct 2010

It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our 'gifts' writes John Hinkson